Happy Mother's Day

My mother looks forward to my crafty gifts on Mother’s Day.  This year I altered a chalkboard for her kitchen.  Mama Minnie is old school and believes in cooking a Soul Food Sunday dinner at her home regardless of Mother’s Day or any special holiday.  I picked up this chalkboard from Michael’s and added décor to compliment her kitchen. My mother is a decorator so I had to make it pretty and add some lace at the top.

Here’s a close up of the bottom. The items are all from my stash.  Chef Phoebe digital image by Robert Jackson was added. She is whipping up the batter for some hot water cornbread!  Although my mother does not wear that attire, I thought she was too adorable and added the perfect sentiment from Basic Grey.

Here’s a close up of the top.  Finally used the Jolee silverware and tied it to some twine to hang.  Then I found the stickers to add another perfect sentiment for the top.  She can add her menu to the front or back.  

Well it’s time to wrap it in a box for delivery.  Did you make your mother something crafty?

You Can Call Me Queen Bee!

Mother's Day is right around the corner, are you making your cards this year?   Need a little inspiration?  There's nothing sweeter than vintage bees and honey in shades of black and yellow with pops of pink.  I layered up the papers and added 3D embellishments to really make these cards pop, I love a good chunky card!

 You can give your cards texture by adding layers of coordinating papers and different materials like the black faceted gem, twine, whimsical pom pom trim, and the doily.

Try adding some of the latest trends to your projects, here I used the Fiskars hexagon squeeze punch to get the "honeycomb" shapes and added the wooden banner-shaped accent.

For this card, I stamped the bee image, but created my own digi stamp for the sentiment.  When you can't find exactly what you want in a sentiment stamp, make your own!   For this "sweet as honey" sentiment, I played around with different fonts in MS Word, some were free downloads from the Internet.  I really layered on the dimension with these 3D paper roses and wood accent from Michaels' Recollections line.

Scrappy Supplies:

Paper: My Mind's Eye The Sweetest Thing ~ Honey

DCWV La CREME matstack

Bee Stamp: Stampendous Queen Bee

Paper Flowers: Recollections

Wood Accents: Recollections

Pom Pom trim: Recollections

How do you add texture to your cards? 

'Til Next Time!

Kimberly

Twine, Twine and more Twine!

Baker's twine is a hot trend in scrapbooking and paper crafts right now. You see it on scrapbook layouts, cards and other craft projects.


It's so versatile, easy to use, reasonable priced and it comes in many, many colors. So I thought I would use it to make some fun embellishments for my layout below. I outlined the hot air balloon and my title banner using twine and made little twine circles accents for my page. I also used it on my journaling tag.

Up and away by Tena Ellison. Supplies - Patterned Paper: American Crafts,

Antique Paperie by Colorbok; Cardstock: Bazzill Basic; Twine: Doodledbug Design Inc.;

Die Cuts: Cricut & Graphically Speaking cartridge; Punch: Martha Stewart; Title Font:

MS Learning cursive; Aleene's tacky glue pen.

This was a quick layout to put together and the twine just added some fun and colorful elements. With all the bright colors of summer it's a great time to try using twine on your next paper project!

**Tip for twine circles** to keep the twine from unraveling while adhering to cardboard, tie a know at the end and start at the center of your cardboard circle.